OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Giovanni Andrea Podestà” — 64 records examined, 12 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-26 20:21 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Putti before a statue of Venus; after Titian, by Giovanni Andrea Podestà

Putti before a statue of Venus; after Titian

Giovanni Andrea Podestà · 1636

Public domainThe Met
Side view of the Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after his own designs, by Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725

Side view of the Second Carriage of Lord Castelmaine built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after his own designs

Arnold van Westerhout, Flemish, 1651 – 1725 · 1687–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families, by Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia)

The Triumph of Fame; (reverse) Impresa of the Medici Family and Arms of the Medici and Tornabuoni Families

Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi (called Scheggia) · ca. 1449

Public domainThe Met
Portrait of Andrea Appiani the Elder (1754-1817)

Portrait of Andrea Appiani the Elder (1754-1817)

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1840

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Adoration of the Shepherds, by Andrea Mantegna

The Adoration of the Shepherds

Andrea Mantegna · shortly after 1450

Public domainThe Met
Saint Jerome

Saint Jerome

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1675

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Giovanni Andrea Muti, by Bernardino Cametti

Giovanni Andrea Muti

Bernardino Cametti · ca. 1725

Public domainThe Met
Proposed Elevation, Section, and Plan for the Facade of San Giovanni, Laterano, Rome, Italy, by Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709

Proposed Elevation, Section, and Plan for the Facade of San Giovanni, Laterano, Rome, Italy

Andrea Pozzo, Italian, 1642–1709 · 1699–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo, by Andrea Sacchi

Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo

Andrea Sacchi · 1641

Public domainThe Met
Side View of the First Carriage (1686) of Lord Castelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700, by Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704

Side View of the First Carriage (1686) of Lord Castelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700

Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704 · 1687–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret, by Andrea da Giona

Altarpiece with Christ, Saint John the Baptist, and Saint Margaret

Andrea da Giona · 1434

Public domainThe Met
Front View of the First Carriage (1686 of Lord Castlemaine by Andrea Cornelly after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700, by Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704

Front View of the First Carriage (1686 of Lord Castlemaine by Andrea Cornelly after Ciro Ferri, 1687-1700

Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704 · 1687–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Coronation of the Virgin, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

Coronation of the Virgin

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455

Public domainThe Met
Rear View of the First Carriage of Lord Catelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri (1634-1689), by Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704

Rear View of the First Carriage of Lord Catelmaine Built in 1686 by Andrea Cornely after Ciro Ferri (1634-1689)

Giovanni Battista Lenardi, Italian, 1634 – 1704 · 1687–1700

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist, by Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo)

The Holy Family with the Young Saint John the Baptist

Andrea del Sarto (Andrea d'Agnolo) · ca. 1528

Public domainThe Met
Peasants Listening to Itinerant Musicians, by Giovanni Andrea Coppola, Italian, 1597 - 1659

Peasants Listening to Itinerant Musicians

Giovanni Andrea Coppola, Italian, 1597 - 1659 · ca. 1665

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Blessed Andrea Gallerani (died 1251), by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Blessed Andrea Gallerani (died 1251)

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · 1447–65

Public domainThe Met
Saturn, by Girolamo Scarselli, Italian, active c. 1670

Saturn

Girolamo Scarselli, Italian, active c. 1670 · ca. 1670

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Andrew, by Andrea Bregno

Saint Andrew

Andrea Bregno · 1491

Public domainThe Met
Study: A left hand in a leaning position, by Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Italian, 1610 - 1670

Study: A left hand in a leaning position

Giovanni Andrea Sirani, Italian, 1610 - 1670 · ca. 1650

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Saint Ignatius Loyola with Saints and Martyrs of the Jesuit Order, by Alessandro Algardi

Saint Ignatius Loyola with Saints and Martyrs of the Jesuit Order

Alessandro Algardi · second half of the 17th century

Public domainThe Met
Sketchbook Page, Folio 57: Study after Piazza Emmanuelle in Bologna; Verso, Architectural Detail, by Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823

Sketchbook Page, Folio 57: Study after Piazza Emmanuelle in Bologna; Verso, Architectural Detail

Felice Giani, Italian, 1758–1823 · 1811–14

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation, by Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia)

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · ca. 1455–60

Public domainThe Met
Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists, by François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

Album of Prints: Designs by François de Cuvilliés as well as other German Artists

François de Cuvilliés the Elder, Belgian, 1695 - 1768

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 477 matched · 24 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 4282 matched · 40 examined · 12 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-26 20:21 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.